Just for the hell of it, I sent an email to Delia Mcclain at ElderSource this morning: Delia, I have not heard from you in seven months now. Is this email address still valid? Does my mother still have an open case file with your organization? Can I get a status update? Any help from […]
I called Dr. Wolf on my way to work this morning. I was concerned because I started wondering if the reason Dr. Peele had refused to sign the death certificate was because he was waiting for the results of the autopsy, and I wanted to make sure that Dr. Wolf would not share the results […]
On August 27th, 2012 — two weeks after she died, and after nine months of trying — the State of Florida Department of Children and Families finally approved my mother’s application for Medicaid. On the afternoon of September 10th, I sent this email to my attorney, Steve Phillips, of Pincus & Currier, LLP: Steve, After […]
On the morning of September 7th, 2012, I sent this email to Steve Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP, the attorney who was working with us at the time: Hey Steve, Can you tell me what’s happening right now? Have you heard anything from Dr. Wolf? Did you send the notice to Woodland Terrace about […]
I got an email from Amazon.com this morning to remind me that mom’s 64th birthday is in fifteen days. It included a link to her Amazon wishlist, of course; I forced her to create one in December of 2001. It is still there, though there are only a few things on it. I got her […]
At about eight o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, September 5th, 2012 I had forwarded an email from Dr. Cusack to Attorney Steven Phillips of Pincus & Currier, LLP and added this note: Steve, Do you have any idea what I should do here? I am just completely at a loss at this point. He […]
Dr. Allen Cusack of Cusack Mortuary just emailed me: Great News!! The medical examiner’s office for Volusia County approved the cremation at 11:26 a. m. Like I said, it wouldn’t take long once we had a doctor’s signature. The delay has been Dr. Peele as everyone else has been ready to do our duties. The […]
Dr. Allen Cusack from Cusack Mortuary just emailed me: Good Morning, Good news…the death certificate has been signed. We are moments away from the approval needed to do the cremation and it will be done today, so that we can get your mother home to you as soon as possible. I also spoke with Dr. […]
About a month after she died, I sent the following email to one of the places mom worked when I was a kid: From: Gagne, David To: Morris, Patty Subject: Employee Records Sent: September 5, 2012 11:22 AM Pacific Dear Ms. Morris, I found your email address listed as the contact reference for the […]